Hafa Adai yan Tirow, and welcome to my little corner of the world.

My name is Joan, and this page is where conservation, creativity, island community and random cool nature facts all collide into one. I’m a born and raised Saipan native, where the ocean is basically a part of your personality and a love for nature has crept into every fiber of my being.

You’ll definitely be hearing more about my island in the next few blogs to come, but for now I’ve linked a map to the right of this little tangent for your viewer convenience. And as you can see, I was quite literally born on a little dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Don’t be fooled though, little islands make big hearts and even bigger personalities.

From a young age, I’ve always been interested in the natural world around me- whether that’s learning about the variety of fruit trees that we grew at my family’s house or asking my grandma about the åmot (medicinal herbs) that she would collect near the village church on early summer mornings, love for the environment is rooted deeply within me.